Local Government Waste Tire Cleanup and Amnesty Event Grant Program

Notice of Funding Availability

The fiscal year 2006-07 grant application period is now closed. The application deadline was February 23, 2007. All eligible applicants were awarded funds at the May 2007 Board Meeting.

The California Integrated Waste Management Board (CIWMB) allocated $2,700,000 for the Local Government Waste Tire Cleanup and Amnesty Event Grant Program in Fiscal Year 2006-07. Public Resources Code Section 42889 authorizes the CIWMB to expend funds from the California Tire Recycling Management Fund (Tire Fund) to pay for the cost of cleanup, abatement, or other remedial actions related to the disposal of waste tires.

Grant Funding

One million dollars ($1,000,000) is available for waste tire cleanup projects and one million seven hundred thousand dollars ($1,700,000) is available for amnesty events. Eligible applicants may request up to fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) per site/project or two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) per applicant for waste tire cleanup projects; and up to twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) per applicant for amnesty events or for regional applicants up to twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) per jurisdiction and a maximum of seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) per regional applicant for amnesty events. The Board is reserving twenty-five percent (25 percent) of the funding allocation for amnesty events for funding grants to eligible rural entities as defined for this grant program. For purposes of the Amnesty Event Grant Program, rural entities are defined as any county and city, district or Native American Tribe within a county, which has a 2000 U.S. Census population of less than two-hundred thousand (200,000). The CIWMB may, at its sole discretion, fund only certain portions of a grant proposal or elect not to award any grants; sites that have had previous enforcement action against them may be denied. If less funds are requested for either program than are available, the remaining funds may automatically be allocated for use in the other program, as needed.

Applicant Eligibility

California jurisdictions including cities, counties, special districts, other political subdivisions and jurisdictions joined together by formal agreements, as well as California Indian Tribes are eligible.

A formal inter-agency agreement such as a Joint Powers Authority (JPA) or Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) must be in place before the application deadline. Grants will not be awarded to two agencies within the same jurisdiction (example: City of Sacramento Public Works Department and City of Sacramento Health Department).

Project Eligibility

Waste tire cleanup projects include the collection, removal, transportation, recycling, and disposal of waste tires from illegal tire piles and areas where illegal dumping has occurred along public rights-of-way. Sites can be located on private or public property. The waste tires must be transported to a facility that is approved by the CIWMB to accept waste tires. Projects not eligible for grant funding are sites where an operating business, including a farm or ranch, buys, sells, or otherwise trade tires, or that is actively stockpiling waste tires. Sites on property that is zoned agricultural will be considered ineligible for this grant program until they have first attempted to obtain a grant though the CIWMB's Farm and Ranch Grant Program. In addition, sites with more than 500 tires may be referred for the CIWMB-managed cleanup program if they do not meet the eligibility requirements of either the Farm and Ranch or Local Government Waste Tire Grant Cleanup Program, or if it is determined to be more cost-effective to remediate a site through that program.

Amnesty events must allow citizens to bring up to 20 waste tires to convenient locations for proper management up to twice per month per location or can consist of a coupon program that allows citizens to bring in waste tires on specified days.

Application Submittal and Deadline

To request an application you can:

• Submit your request by e-mail to: tiregrants@ciwmb.ca.gov.
• Call the Waste Tire Grant Programs at (916) 341-6441.
• Download the application from this site.
  Application:  Adobe PDF (121 KB) | MS Word (145 KB)

Applicants must submit one original and two copies of the application including a description of the sites to be cleaned up or amnesty event programs that are proposed to be funded with grant monies. Applications must be postmarked or date stamped by CIWMB no later than Friday, February 23, 2007. Applications will be accepted at the Cal/EPA Headquarters Building located at 1001 I Street, Sacramento, California until 3:00 p.m. on Friday, February 23, 2007. Faxed or e-mailed applications will not be accepted. Late applications will be returned and will not be considered for grant funding for this fiscal year.

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Last updated: December 02, 2007